Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
ALAN COOPERI just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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